Where do I start?
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:39 am
Firstly, my apologies for creating a new thread when so much of what I'll say relates to other posts already made.
The difficulty is that so many other posts contain only traces of the full story and I feel like consolidating it all into one place.
Jeez we were awful tonight. Skills were lamentable, bad kicking, fumbling, poor decision making. How many times do we have to kick it to a 2 on 1 in the oppositions favour and watch the ball go back over our heads before we learn the numbers game?
I thought we looked either lazy or tired or disinterested or all three tonight. I lost count of the number of times players just stopped dead after a contest and didn't follow up on the play. Stanton was the number one culprit and I'm a monkey's uncle if he was fit. You'd have thought after we played him last week we'd have learnt that lesson.
But he wasn't alone and it was galling to watch Dogs players run off from a contest and then receive the ball while our players stood there flatfooted. Equally as annoying was every single time we stood off the Dogs when they had the ball and allowed them to take their time, find a target, or run inside 50.
McPhee tried hard, but fumbled just about everything. JJ was the same. Kicking for goal was obviously rubbish and I can barely watch any time it's Stanton or Hille lining up, you just never know where it will go. How come people have called for Jobe to get some kicking skills and let those two off the hook? As for Lloyd, I can only think he too needs to go back to kicking school because he's missed a heap of "easy" ones all season.
And I really don't care if he's had a year off with injury etc, if he's not the best option we've got then he shouldn't be in the side, and frankly I'm not sure he is our best option at the moment. He's not leading well nor applying defensive pressure, and if CJ was looked for as much as Lloyd is I think he'd get at least 3 or 4 each week also, and provide more for the team in those other areas.
Hopefully tonight will put paid to assessments of last week's match against Geelong as being unlucky that we ran out of players, because tonight that wasn't the case, we were simply overrun and looked a rabble at the end, and it had been on the cards against the Cats last week too for much of the game.
On the bright side, we actually are capable of good play. When we get it right we can be very good, but consistency of skill and effort is missing so far.
Jobe played another great game, his kicking has been very good lately and his handball skills are sublime, has good vision, and, he keeps getting hold of the thing.
Nash is a great prospect, I've liked the look of him for a while and am so pleased to see him put some good games together. The boy seems to understand what modern running footy is about and uses the ball very well.
Was also good to see Dyson at least get into the game a bit tonight and even his ball use improved over recent weeks. Hopefully he's turning the corner, finally, into realising his potential. Not saying he had a great game but it was an improvement.
Ditto with Laycock. Struggled until the last few weeks but has been good for us in recent weeks and probably been the better ruckman out of him and Hille. Hoping he keeps the consistency up too.
I was also pleased to see Campo have a good game until injured, and prove many doubters wrong about his use in our side. He didn't get to 250 without some talent.
And, as always, Lucas played a solid game. If he'd play in front a little more he'd be super, and if he had an extra yard of pace he'd be pure gold. It was nice to hear a Dogs supporter near me raving about how good Scotty is.
Anyway, there you have it, all my gripes and opinions in one place - that ought to make it easier for everyone to pick the faults!!![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Cheers folks, and Go Bombers next week.
The difficulty is that so many other posts contain only traces of the full story and I feel like consolidating it all into one place.
Jeez we were awful tonight. Skills were lamentable, bad kicking, fumbling, poor decision making. How many times do we have to kick it to a 2 on 1 in the oppositions favour and watch the ball go back over our heads before we learn the numbers game?
I thought we looked either lazy or tired or disinterested or all three tonight. I lost count of the number of times players just stopped dead after a contest and didn't follow up on the play. Stanton was the number one culprit and I'm a monkey's uncle if he was fit. You'd have thought after we played him last week we'd have learnt that lesson.
But he wasn't alone and it was galling to watch Dogs players run off from a contest and then receive the ball while our players stood there flatfooted. Equally as annoying was every single time we stood off the Dogs when they had the ball and allowed them to take their time, find a target, or run inside 50.
McPhee tried hard, but fumbled just about everything. JJ was the same. Kicking for goal was obviously rubbish and I can barely watch any time it's Stanton or Hille lining up, you just never know where it will go. How come people have called for Jobe to get some kicking skills and let those two off the hook? As for Lloyd, I can only think he too needs to go back to kicking school because he's missed a heap of "easy" ones all season.
And I really don't care if he's had a year off with injury etc, if he's not the best option we've got then he shouldn't be in the side, and frankly I'm not sure he is our best option at the moment. He's not leading well nor applying defensive pressure, and if CJ was looked for as much as Lloyd is I think he'd get at least 3 or 4 each week also, and provide more for the team in those other areas.
Hopefully tonight will put paid to assessments of last week's match against Geelong as being unlucky that we ran out of players, because tonight that wasn't the case, we were simply overrun and looked a rabble at the end, and it had been on the cards against the Cats last week too for much of the game.
On the bright side, we actually are capable of good play. When we get it right we can be very good, but consistency of skill and effort is missing so far.
Jobe played another great game, his kicking has been very good lately and his handball skills are sublime, has good vision, and, he keeps getting hold of the thing.
Nash is a great prospect, I've liked the look of him for a while and am so pleased to see him put some good games together. The boy seems to understand what modern running footy is about and uses the ball very well.
Was also good to see Dyson at least get into the game a bit tonight and even his ball use improved over recent weeks. Hopefully he's turning the corner, finally, into realising his potential. Not saying he had a great game but it was an improvement.
Ditto with Laycock. Struggled until the last few weeks but has been good for us in recent weeks and probably been the better ruckman out of him and Hille. Hoping he keeps the consistency up too.
I was also pleased to see Campo have a good game until injured, and prove many doubters wrong about his use in our side. He didn't get to 250 without some talent.
And, as always, Lucas played a solid game. If he'd play in front a little more he'd be super, and if he had an extra yard of pace he'd be pure gold. It was nice to hear a Dogs supporter near me raving about how good Scotty is.
Anyway, there you have it, all my gripes and opinions in one place - that ought to make it easier for everyone to pick the faults!!
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Cheers folks, and Go Bombers next week.